RE: Bibby analysis

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

The man of our dreams.  Can we get him?  I would offer 
Vancouver Denver's pick and Jerome Moiso, no questions 
asked.  If needed, we should sweeten the deal with Utah's
pick and cash.

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Berry, Mark  S [SMTP:berrym@BATTELLE.ORG]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:44 AM
> To:	Celtic Lists (E-mail); Celtic Lists (E-mail 2)
> Subject:	Bibby analysis
> 
> It just so happens ESPN.com's Ric Bucher analyzed Bibby in his weekly
> profile of the league's guards this week. Here's what he had to say (I
> think
> the Terrel Brandon comparison is pretty accurate. A young, healthy Terrell
> Brandon):
> 
> Movin' up: Bibby
> (14.5 ppg, 7.5 apg, 3.5 rpg, 1.5 stls, .434 FG, .833 FT)
> For those crying about the young players coming into the league without a
> grasp of the game's important subtleties -- don't worry, I've been guilty
> of
> it myself -- do yourself a favor and catch a Grizzlies' game. Bibby, only
> in
> his third season, operates at the wheel of that hooptie squad as if it
> were
> a brand-new S-model Boxster. His numbers would be better if he held the
> ball
> more, but no one passes it ahead on the break or swings it in the
> halfcourt
> quicker. He plays as if there's a egg timer in his head and every time he
> gets the ball he has three seconds to do something with it. That doesn't
> mean he won't put it on the floor and attack the basket; he just won't
> take
> the three or four moves that so many young players need to set up his
> drive.
> Deceptively quick and fearless, he'll go inside and find angles to get the
> ball up through the thicket of surrounding arms and bodies -- but he only
> goes if the opposing guard is looking to help out elsewhere or playing up
> on
> him to deny him jumpers. There's a good reason for the latter; Bibby has
> become adept at curling and drifting into open spots on the floor for
> mid-range jumpers, which he is deadly knocking down. He reminds me a lot
> of
> Terrell Brandon <http://espn.go.com/nba/profiles/profile/0398.html>. His
> body isn't very well defined, but he's a lot stronger than he looks and
> has
> learned how to use the baseline and the sidelines defensively to help
> squeeze his opposite number